Reeves is stronger not weaker for her tears
Bond traders were less concerned about the chancellor's loss of dignity than with the speculation she might be sacked.
The spectacle of the first female chancellor crying in the Commons was troubling to most watching, but for very different reasons, it seems.
My first thought was dismay, for her obvious distress – has any politician, let alone a cabinet minister, ever looked so conspicuously unhappy?
But dismay too over the inevitable backlash, which came fast and furious, from the women-baiting barbarians that populate our public life.
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